When you're booking a hotel for your next trip, you're subject to the prices available at the time of booking. Often times you can get better deals during less-desirable times of the year, but that's pretty useless if you want to travel when prices are higher. TripDibs fixes that problem by letting you call dibs on a price at any time and book your hotel room for that price whenever you're ready.

So how does this work, exactly? Your browse TripDibs for current hotel deals. If you find one you want, you pay a small fee to reserve the advertised rate for a night. For example, if you found a deal for a nice hotel in Monterey for $100 per night, you'd buy a dib for around $5 per night to be able to book at that price anytime in the future. The only downside is that the cost of the dib doesn't apply to your room rate once you decide to book, so you'll need to add it on to the cost of your nightly rate. Dibs also expire somewhat quickly, which seems to almost defeat the purpose, but if you fall within the date range you are looking at a discount of around 50% (based on the options currently available).

While there are a few caveats and not a lot of available discounts right at this moment, as TravelDibs grows it could become a very good resource for booking at a really low rate. Just be sure to read the fine print (which is very clearly labeled) so you know exactly what you're getting.